FORUM UPGRADE SCHEDULED NOV 5

[JSngry]

Looks like the blue badges designate a moderator? 

[sonnymax]

55 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Looks like the blue badges designate a moderator? 

Nah. It means you're the sheriff around these parts.

[JSngry]

We have more than one sheriff, then! 

[jazzcorner]

On 11/1/2022 at 11:06 PM, Jim Alfredson said:

Hi friends,

The forum will be upgraded to the new Invision software this Saturday, November 5th. I do not have an exact time yet, but during that time the board will be inaccessible. I'm guessing it will take about four hours. The gentleman I hired to do it lives in Italy, so it will probably be late East Coast time, like 2am or 3am.

I'll update this thread with more info as I get it.

When the board comes back up it will look quite different and wont' be themed correctly, as this current theme is incompatible with the new software. It will take me a bit to get a new theme up and running, but at least the board itself will be functional and much more secure.

 Good to read. When I logged it I thought I was  on the wrong place. Great relief here now.

Just one question: The "Donate" button is now where?

Best Willie

(Germany)

 

[mjzee]

Looks great!

[JSngry]

Before the tweaking is finished, maybe the black stripes between posts can be narrowed?

Otherwise, not nearly as different a look as I was expecting! 

[HutchFan]

Digging the new look & feel.

Another big THANK YOU to JIM for keeping this terrific digital meeting place up-and-running!     

 

[JSngry]

Looks like there's a BIGASS BUTTLOAD FULL of new emojis!!!!!!!!!

🦾👀🦴🌂📀🆗🐶🤰

[Jim Alfredson]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

 Good to read. When I logged it I thought I was  on the wrong place. Great relief here now.

Just one question: The "Donate" button is now where?

Best Willie

(Germany)

 

I’m working on it. I installed the donations plug-in but for some reason cannot get it to display on the main page sidebar. Trying to figure that out.

[Jim Alfredson]

I figured it out.

[JSngry]

Yes, but...I get a page telling me that

We can't complete your donation. This organization's account is inactive.

https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/donate/

[optatio]

I've just read it: "Wir können Ihre Spende nicht abwickeln. Das Konto dieser Organisation ist inaktiv."

[optatio]

 

... and I can't insert an image!

[JSngry]

[Jim Alfredson]

I think I fixed it. The sandbox is a mode for testing. Turned that off.

1 hour ago, optatio said:

 

... and I can't insert an image!

Can any other non-admin insert images? There is a size limit. Perhaps that’s the issue?

[JSngry]

I would also ask by what method is the insertion being attempted?

Dragging and dropping may or may not work for everybody?

But using the "Other Media" button and the image URL with a valid image extension at the end of the link should, right? 

[BFrank]

Looks GOOD! 👏

BTW, we now have a FULL compliment of emojis!

[Quasimado]

Looks like a great job - many thanks ...

Question - How does the Rank Progress work? I joined in 2004 and have just been promoted to "Newbie" (with 3 badges) !

How long before I become a "Grand Master"?

 

[Jim Alfredson]

9 minutes ago, Quasimado said:

Looks like a great job - many thanks ...

Question - How does the Rank Progress work? I joined in 2004 and have just been promoted to "Newbie" (with 3 badges) !

How long before I become a "Grand Master"?

 

I don’t know. I haven’t looked into that yet. I’ll see what I can find.

[sidewinder]

First impressions from over here is that it is now significantly faster, especially when posting. Thanks !

[mjazzg]

Also, looks a lot better.  Thanks for sorting out the upgrade 

[mikeweil]

7 hours ago, Jim Alfredson said:

Can any other non-admin insert images? There is a size limit. Perhaps that’s the issue?

I got a note that the new forum software only accepts images with a https adress.

I lost my totally tjaderized rank!

🥵

[neveronfriday]

54 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

I got a note that the new forum software only accepts images with a https adress.

I lost my totally tjaderized rank!

🥵

I just wrote a post and the software allowed me to upload/attach an image which is below 100kb in size. No problems. If you have some software that can minimize photos to that size, you won't have any problems. BTW: I'm sure, once the software has been tweaked, that Jim can increase the size of an image upload to a bit more than that (if he has the server space). I uploaded a smaller-sized image because I was lazy, just to make sure it makes it into the post, but the .jpg-format is one that can wonderfully be tweaked to be really small (compressing it, f. ex., to 25% of its original size without really losing all that much detail). You just need the software to do it.

Edited November 7, 2022 by neveronfriday

[mr jazz]

7 hours ago, Jim Alfredson said:

I don’t know. I haven’t looked into that yet. I’ll see what I can find.

Same thing. I got a badge for being a member for one year but joined many years ago.

[Dan Gould]

This is my first post, post-upgrade but before I submit I already got the "Posting Machine" badge.

 

🤯